On 22.1.2011 18.04, "Denis A. Altoé Falqueto" <denisfalqueto@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys.

Is that the intended purpose? I was having a problem with the mouse module from KDE system settings and discovered that I didn't have libusb-compat. When I listed its contents just to check, I saw that it is the owner of /usr/lib/libusb.so and it is pointing to /usr/lib/libusb.so.0.1.so.4.4.4. Would that make programs compiled in my machine be linked against the older libusb? Or is it harmless?

-- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad?

------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------

Most of the apps will link to the lib specified in pkgconfig file of the pkg. As the compat pkg contains only the library and no development files the pkgconfig file of the libusb pkg will be used and it will tell to link to the .so.some-number and not to the .so symlink.